Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-24
DIVINE TO FORGIVE.
DR.. TALNAGR'S ELOQUENT TABERNACLE
DISCOURSE LAST SUNDAY.
Let Not the Sun Go Down Upon Your Wrath-Ths
Beauties Of the HOur-Subhms and Suggestive
Then and NOw-The Duty Of Cbrc-
tan Forgiveness.

BROOKLYN, October 23-The Rev. T
De Witt Talmage, D. D., preached in tn
Brooklyn Tabernacle this morning on thC
subject: forgiveness before Sundown.'
After explaining some passages concerning
Hezekiah, DR.. Talmage gave out the fol
lowing hymn, which was sung by th'
congregation
This glorious hope revives
Our courage by the way,
While each in expectation lives
And longs TO see the day"
Professor Henry Eyre Browne rendered
on the organ an aria with variations, by
Cramer. The text of the sermon was from
Ephesiaus iv. %: LET not the sun q
down upon your wrath" DIR. Talmag'
said:
What pillow embroidered Of all color'
hath the dying day! The cradle of clouds
from which the sun rises is beautiful
enough, but it is surpassed by the many
colored mausoleum in which at evening il
is buried. Sunset among the mountains
1t almost takes ones bresth away to recall
the scene. The long shadows stretching
over the plain make the glory of the de
parting light, on the tip.tOp crags anC
struck aslant through the foliage, the more
transpicuous. Saffron and gold, purple
and crimson commingled. All the castles
OF cloud in conhagration. Burning Mos
cows on the sky. Hanging gardens OF
roses at their deepest blush. Banners Oj
vapor, red as ii from carnage, in the battle
Of the elements. The hunter among the
Adirondacks, and the Swiss yillageI
among the Alps know what il .
sunset among the mountains After Il
! storm at sea the rolling grandeur into
which the sun goes down to bathe at
nighttall is something TO make weird and
splendid dreams out OF for a life time.
Alexander Smith in his poem compares
the sunset to 'the barren beach OF hell, -
but this wonderful spectacle OF nature
makes me think of the FURNISHED wall OF
heaven. Paul in prison writing my text
remembers some of the gorgeous sunsets
among the mountains of Asia Minor, and
how he had often seen the towers OF Damas.
Gus blaze in the close Of the oriental days,
and he flashed out that memory in the
text when he says: Let not the sun &c
down upon your wrath.
Sublime aud allsuggestive duty for
people then and people now.
FORGIVENESS BEFORE sUNDOwN.
He who never feels the throb of indigna
ton is imbecile. He who can walk among
the injustiCes of the world, inaicting upon
himself and Others, without flush of cheek
or flash of eye, or agitation of nature is
either in sympathy with wrong or semi
idiOtic. When Auanias, the high priest,
ordered the cOnstables of the court room
to smite Paul in the mouth, Paul fired up
and said God shall smite thee, thou
whited wall" In the sentence imme
diately before my text Paul commands the
Ephesians: ''Be ye angry and sin not. y
1t all depends on what you are mad al
and how long the feeling lasts whether
| anger il right or wrong. Life is full OI
exasperati0ns. Saul after David, Succoth
after Gideon, kOrah after Moses, the
Pasquins after Augustus, the Pharisees
after Christ, aud every one has had his
pursuers, and We are swindled or belied,
or misrepresented, or prosecuted, or IN
some way wrUnged, and the danger is
that healthful Indignation shall become
balelul spites, and that our feelings settle
down into prolonged Outpouring of tenn
per displeasing to God and ruinOus TO our
selves, and hence the important injunction
of the text: "Let not the sun 20 down
upon your wrath " Why that limi
tation to ones anger? Why that
period OF flaming yapor set 10 punctuate a
a flaming disposition? What has the sun
set got to do with ones resenttul emo
tions? Was it haphazlrd sentiment
written by Paul without special signifi'
canoe? No, no. think Of five reasons why
we should not let the sun set be fore OuI
temper sets:
First-Because twelve hours is long
enough 10 be cross abOut any wrong in
tlicted upon us. Nothing is so exhausting
to physical health OF mental faculty as O
pyotracted Indulgence Of ill-humOr Ii
racks the nervous system. 1t hurts the
digestion. Il heats the blood in brain
and heart until the whole body is first
Over-heated and then depressed Besides
that, it sOurs the disposition, turns one
aside from his legitimate work, expend'
energies that ought to be better employed,
aud does Us more harm than it does oul
antagonist. Paul gives us u good, wide
allowance for legitimate denunciation-
from 6 o'clock TO 6 o'ClOck-but says
"stOD there. Watch the
DESCENDING ORB OF DAY,
and VIXEN it reaches the horizon take 8
reef in your disposition. lnloOse yOul
collar and cool of. Change the subject tC
something delightfully."- pleasant. UnTol
your tight fist and skake hands with some
one. Bank up the fires at the curfew bell
Drive the growing dog OF enmity back tC
its kennel. The hours of this morning
will pass by, and the afternoon will arrive
aud the sun will begin to set, and bes
you on its blazing hearth throw all youl
feuds, invectives and sstires.
Other things being equal, the man who
preserves good temper will come out ahead
An old essayist says that the celebrated
John Henderson, OF bristol, England, Wa'
at dining party where political excite
ment ran high and the debate got angry
and while Henderson was speaking, hi:
opponent, unable to answer his argument
dashed glass of wine in his face, wher
the speaker deliberately wiped the liquid
from his face and said: : This, sir
is depression; now, if You please
for the main argument" While
worldly philosophy could help but
very few to such equipoise of spirit, thu
grace of God could help any man to such &
triumph. impossible" you say, 90
would have either left the table in anger
or nave knocked the man down But
have come to believe that nothing is i'm
possible if God help, since what saw a
Beth-Shan faith cure in London, England
two summers ago. While the religion!
service Was going on Rev. DR.. Boardman
glorious man since gone TO his heavenly
rest, was telling the scores Of sick people
present that Christ was there as of old Il
heal all diseases. and that, if they woulC
only believe, their sickness would depart
/ saw a woman near me, with hand and